skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Whatever the causes may be, the end result is poor engineering. I didn't say incompetent, but rather lazy and lower quality."

The engineering might be perfectly fine if you take into account the deadlines, budgets and requirements from the clients/managers.

If you pay someone to build a house on a short deadline with a small budget, then you'll obviously get a crappy house. But the skill that went into building that house in such a short time, and on such a low budget, might be extremely high.

Good engineering doesn't mean a perfect product. It just means you managed to deliver the best possible one out of the situation you were in. It's up to the owner of the product to decide if it's good enough.
Arguably, one of the most important characteristics of a load balancer is to have extremely low latency. If you're balancing loads, you want to be very quick about making a decision. When generating predictions about the computational cost, that can itself add in a computational cost that might result in a non-negligible amount of computational cost overhead.

Inherently, the idea that you're talking about boils down to having a way to characterize the nature of the request flows in such a manner that they can be evenly distributed. The ideal way to characterize them then, would be to know this information beforehand such that it does not require any computation at all to normalize the costs. As such, the best strategy would be to actually segregate traffic flows such that they're forwarded to "dumb" load balancers that use one of the strategies from TFA like weighted round robin.

Of course, there are many such optimizations available, but TFA seems to be targeting a beginner level introduction to a rather complex topic. As you describe, load balancing and scheduling algorithms have a pretty high overlap in terms of their theoretical foundations, and these concepts manifest themselves throughout any large scale system.
To me, there's an irony that the nationalist desire to sever Britain from the EU is the best way to hasten the dissolution of Great Britain. Now that Brexit is done with, reunification of Ireland and Scottish Independence are in the conversation.

I'm also not British so I don't know how serious those conversations are. But the assured economic and political disaster of Brexit wasn't enough to stop that ridiculous idea, so who's to say the same won't happen to the marginally less ridiculous proposition to reunify Ireland and establish an independent Scotland for the first time in centuries?
Usually the Economist does better at making such articles at least appear to have a veneer of substance, even if lacking, while this piece is just bare as lacking it completely.

> Urban scholars like Richard Florida and Edward Glaeser (who spoke about the future of cities at Policy Exchange, a British think-tank, this week) are busy trying to work out whether the rise in home-working that has occurred during the covid-19 pandemic will endure when the virus ebbs. If it does, many service jobs in cities, from baristas to taxi drivers, will disappear. Public-transport systems will struggle. The value of city-centre property will tank. The shed boom makes that outcome more likely.

What a tenuous attempt at tying sheds to job loss and city center value reduction with no rationale whatsoever given. Where is the study on this topic? None is referenced or linked. The scholars referenced aren't given any context about their background, nor their current positions or research.

> This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "Spread of the shed"

Perhaps they should have stuck with the print title instead of the vapid clickbait we were given. I'd say the Economist should know better, but they've been a shadow of their former selves for quite a long time now.

Found while searching one of the scholars referenced:

"It is impossible to predict in advance which changes will stick, and how much and to what extent our cities and suburbs will ultimately change. Such ventures in futurism are always a fool’s game. But it is safe to say that the changes that will persist are those that make our cities safer, healthier, and more efficient." - Richard Florida
See, the system works ;-)
What was fantastic, during this period, was Moore's Law. Just waiting one year, you could see hardware selling prices divided by two, that was magic.
Here's the official one for ios, not tvos though. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jellyfin-mobile/id1480192618
Will this be Twitter's Instagram?

Or

Will this be Twitter's Tumbler?

My money is on the latter.
> NB: This page cotains a single Amazon affiliate link. Clicking on it may financially benefit the author

Clicked on his Amazon link just for that.
„Junk Cabin: Secretly building my wife a COVID office“ https://youtu.be/BzSeGJF6RhM
Canadian TN packets are adjudicated at the border, by a border guard, in person. The immigration attorney was conveying experience with the adjudication process of comparable packets as a function of visual appearance of the applicant.
Same, we ended up pushing back our subscription for almost a year, in which we really could've used their service. Just because the upfront cost was so high. And when we finally got a subscription it was a silver subscription, which is great but doesn't let us drop Jira. The gold subscription cost is just insane. It might make sense if you're used to paying SV wages.
I really dislike titles of this form ("I love to do X, and so should you"). It might not be the most rational response, but I intuitively refuse to let some article in some magazine tell me what I should or should not do, let alone "love".

Just to be clear, I find the history of computing fascinating, and I have a big soft spot for old-school hardware. My heart still skips a beat when I hear a modem/fax screeching, and every time I visit my doctor who still uses a dot matrix printer, I smile when it does its thing.
> How do they schedule the shows to account for the odd lengths?

Certainly up through the 90s the 'big ticket' and imported shows started on the hour or :30 and everything else slotted around that. Secondary programmes often started at :50 or :15 as a result.

https://www.transdiffusion.org/content/uploads/2016/10/19991...

If timings were really awkward they would pad five or ten minutes with a short filler about hot air ballooning or pottery making or somesuch
Completely unable to load anything today from 11:30sh to 12:30ish EST in Brooklyn, all seems to be smooth now. First ever issue with FiOS in two years, would still fully recommend them to anyone when comparing to most options, especially Comcast.
Type inference does not mean untyped. Arguably, getting a type error when you didn't write a single type hint makes things even more confusing if you are not an experienced programmer.
> Internally we've talked some about staggering drive models and drive ages to make these moments less impactful. But at any one moment one drive model usually stands out at a good price point, and buying in bulk we get a little discount, so this hasn't come to be.

I don't know what your software architecture looks like right now (after reading the 2019 Vault post) but at some point it probably makes sense to move file shard location to a metadata layer to support more flexible layouts to work around failure domains (age, manufacturer, network switch, rack, power bus, physical location, etc.), reduce hotspot disks, and allow flexible hardware maintenance. Durability and reliability can be improved with two levels of RS codes as well; low level (M of N) codes for bit rot and failed drives and a higher level of (M2 of N2) codes across failure domains. It costs the same (N/M)*(N2/M2) storage as a larger (M*M2 of N*N2) code but you can use faster codes and larger N on the (N,M) layer (e.g. sse-accelerated RAID6) and slower, larger codes across transient failure domains under the assumption that you'll rarely need to reconstruct from the top-level parity, and any 2nd-level shards that do need to be reconstructed will be using data from a much larger number of drives than N2 to reduce hotspots. This also lets you rewrite lost shards immediately without physical drive replacement which reduces the number of parities required for a given durability level.

This paper does something similar with product codes: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~msaxena/new/papers/hacfs-fast15.pd...
I'd like to suggest Hydrus Network as a possible alternative to this, as it's also open source and written in Python: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/

Of course, just not limited to porn and it can be used to classify/sort all kinds of audiovisual media, although its video/audio support is a tad lacking and it doesn't do so well with sequential art (You can still tag pages/chapters and have them somewhat ordered, but for instance it won't visualize CBZ archives)

Disclaimer: Not the author, merely just a (power) user whose use cases are mostly covered by it.
My point isn’t that HN is fine, my point is that the internet is literally filled with places to engage in free discussion.

You’re worried that people won’t do that and that if they don’t, we should somehow force some Big Tech Co to indoctrinate them with an agenda that you find agreeable.

Just because most people elect to use a service despite having gobs of alternatives doesn’t make that service a monopoly.
I mean, what did Claude Shannon know about computers or anything else?
Indeed, you're looking at supply not keeping up with demand due to artificial constraints imposed by King County.
Not according to their own metrics. Monthly Active Users and New Profile Rate are the relevant metrics, and both are in decline.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Not sure, but it could be through MAC address and previous knowledge of your location:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/765054.html
Funny, I just mentioned using a SSB in another HN item (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919351>).

I don't use SSBs to eliminate UI. On the contrary I usually keep the tabbed browser UI in a SSB.

I like SSBs because I can remain logged-in to a site without those cookies being available to a browser that I'm using across the open web.

Also I can clear all the cookies on my regular browser and not get logged out from the SSB site.

The killer aspect is being able restore workspace sessions:
It's easy to close the SSB with multiple tabs and restore it later with all the tabs. For example lately I've been using Epichrome to log into various gsuite accounts. For any account, I'll tend to have multiple tabs open to gmail/gdocs/gdrive/gcalendar. I wouldn't want to keep this these tabs open in my regular browser. I just need these tabs open (all at once) whenever I'm doing work for that particular client. So if I make a SSB for that account I can recreate my workspace session easily and close it all at once easily, and it's not eating up laptop RAM/swap space unnecessarily when I'm not using it.
We have two.
Another thing, GME is just one of many stocks that appear to be squeezing right now. These other stocks that might be squeezing (like DDS, TR?, FIZZ, BBBY) are barely mentioned on WSB.

What's causing all these stocks to be squeezing at the same time?

I'm not even sure we should be saying GME was WSB's doing, although it is a fun story.
Yes, quite frequently. I haven't read it yet but had heard cooking can trip PM2.5 sensors up but I guess I assumed that air quality issues that come from something you eat would be less detrimental to health (as a general rule). It could certainly explain the propensity to kick up in the morning. Thank you.
Honeywell and First Alert sell small fire safes for around $100 that actually hold up to fire and water damage.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-fireproof-do...

Break-ins are not in my threat model for a document safe. If they were, I'd get a deposit box at a bank. I just want some of my personal mementos and documents to survive a fire.
Whenever a change to an ecosystem / business model comes along and some entrenched interest complains, I think:

"I have no doubt that someone will succeed under these new rules to come. You're just upset that it isn't you any more."
History professor with 1m substack? Is this a specific reference?
That's really a big issue. Lift gates are expensive, require maintenance.

Rando homeowner won't understand why that's 'extra' and such because we're used to things being adapted to hour home ... not a loading dock.
I live in a single family dwelling so it's probably breakfast then.
and all of those are slow as hell
> The Twitter brand isn't looking so hot right now.

Can you explain? I use Twitter daily (hourly) and haven't read anything that lessened my opinion of them. Are you talking about censorship / Trump stuff? Personally they have not gotten on my bad side with any of that.

> Slack only exists because Microsoft teams is made by Microsoft

I'm also not sure what you mean by this. Microsoft Teams exists because of Slack.
Thank you for replying! I've actually been using and enjoying your product for the past day or so.

"Also you need to have an access to private networks if you are on Windows."

This was the problem. Being the bonehead that I am, my home network profile was accidentally set to Public network, rather than private.
> An election theft is conspiracy by definition.

No, its not.

Either a single actor with appropriate access or multiple independent actors not acting in coordination could effect the theft of an election without any conspiracy.

Conspiracy requires an agreement to work together; that might help with an election theft but it is not “by definition” necessary for election theft.
Interesting, wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the link!
These requests are used to detect WIFI portals.
I couldn’t see where the article addresses it but why can’t we eat oak or maple leaves? Or say palm fronds?
As another note on your claim of the necessity of address:

It would be absolutely trivial to implement a system where one might requæst a randomly generated code with the postal service, that can be placed on a letter that maps to one's real address, except of course, that the real address cannot be retrieved from it, which is hidden with the postal service.

With such a trivial scheme, it would be possible to receive mail without having to leak one's place of residence to the sender, simply give them such a code, which could even be set to expire within a set timeframe, at which point the postal service deletes the connexion to one's real address, for fear their data be leaked.

It's trivial; it's of far greater importance than the sensitivity of biometric data, yet it is not there.

I can only gander it's not, because the E.U. is extremely arbitrary at what points it cares about one's privacy. Name and address are absolutely, as I argued elsewhere, some of the most sensitive data available, and there are trivial measures that could be taken to secure it better, yet these are not implemented, for the E.U. is extremely arbitrary and not rational in it's decisions.
Traffic is passing, although slowly.

I think this revealed that there is insufficient failover capacity.
Wow, never knew FF Focus could be a content blocker on iOS. I'll try it over Wipr.
> She said during the news, rather than ads, you saw the hosts smoking and chatting.

Sounds like she was viewing the direct feed or something. There is a documentary called "Spin" which was recorded footage of the downtime between ads. You can see, for example, George H.W. Bush chatting up Larry King. There is footage of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and others. The people being recorded don't seem to realize that the satellite feed continues during a break or downtime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(1995_film)
they could, but do they?
Can user programs handle I/O controls of devices (since some kind of devices require them, and you may wish to emulate them)?
That is not the proper denotation of the word. The FDA has not placed any ban on the AstraZeneca vaccine. The FDA has not yet approved the vaccine, and there are various limitations on what can be done with a medicine prior to approval (note these limitations are on manufacture, importation, and marketing, not on taking the drug, you can easily and legally be prescribed and buy unapproved drugs), and approving the vaccine could be thought of as analogous in several ways to lifting a ban, but it is incorrect to say that there is a ban for the FDA to lift. The FDA can ban drugs, and there are many that it has, but AstraZeneca's vaccine is not one of them.

Likewise, an engaged couple is just as un-married as a divorced one, and there might be various analogues between a divorced couple getting remarried and an engaged couple being married for the first time, but it is still incorrect to say an engaged couple that has never been married should get remarried.
I’m by no means a marketing expert, but showing your early users respect, courtesy, and-dare I say it-loyalty, seems intuitive to me but also less and less common in today’s Anything As A Service (pronounced like “ass”) tech environment. I don’t miss months-long sales cycles, prohibitive up-front costs, oppressive support contracts, etc., but I do miss having companies that will bend over backward to retain long-time customers. Everything has become a transaction, and every customer is just a fraction of a company’s overall revenue. I’m not dissing GitLab as I am not (yet) a paying customer, just commenting on the state of software in general.
I think you made a typo: 1 foot = 0.305m (exactly 0.3048m).
Cabbage is a brassica, right? Indians eat lots of cabbage, north to south. And a lot of cauliflower, also a brassica. Alu gobhi (a dry veg dish of potato and cauliflower) is a dish famous even in the West. I read somewhere that Bryan Adams enjoyed it on an India tour, some years ago. I don't like it much, personally (but don't dislike it either).
The reason it is a plugin is because it's really complicated and confusing. Even as someone who has a deep understanding of web protocols I get tripped up by temporary containers sometimes when things don't work quite right.

Firefox built the core container technology, which drives their built in Facebook container (isolating Facebook from everything else). But isolating everything has a lot of weird edge cases, and I can't blame them for not supporting it out of the box.
Interesting. I just started getting into using Parsec (which is apparently what Plex it partnering with for this). I was able to get it set up streaming from my gaming PC to a raspberry pi 2b (note, the only _officially_ supported rpi is the 3.0 or 3b, but the 2b actually works with it, while 4.0 support is in development), and was a little underwhelmed. Had to lock the fps to 30 or my rpi couldn't keep up, and had to run wired or the wireless network couldn't keep up. at 30 fps lock, the fps was _very_ noticeable, unfortunately.

I tried using a Windows 10 laptop (Ryzen 5 2500u) to see if it was any fault of the raspberry pi, and noticed the decoding time for the video went from 1.8ms on my rpi to like 14ms on my laptop, which was using the Vega gpu to perform the decoding. No bueno. Was able to turn the fps up to 60, and things seemed okay, but when I got into a good action game (Warhammer Vermintide 2), it was not a good experience. The latency on decoding was just causing too much of a dissonance between my input and the video output for it to be playable.

I will note that the video decoding was lightning fast on the raspberry pi, though. Makes me wonder if maybe the rpi 3.0/3b might perform better. I don't really want to buy one to find out (would rather wait and get a 4.0 once they release support for it).

In the end, I really couldn't get anything running to my liking. I'm sure it is fantastic for game streaming for some people, though.
KODI and Plex share the same history of being XBMC at one point. Plex they focused on a single headend unit to do decode/re-encode of data and many simple devices running a client GUI. The head end controls the metadata. KODI on the other hand has stalled out on the headend bits but added in full on emulation via libretro a couple of years ago. So each KODI instances is complete thing. Unless you add in something like mariadb. In many ways Plex is 'better' (streaming, support), in many ways KODI is 'better' (better skinning, bluray ISO playback, etc). Ease of use is about equal between the two (again not surprising their shared history).

I would like to use Plex for streaming but it does not support my particular set of media use cases (ISO files). That may have changed but I gave up waiting years ago.
Plex doesn't track your viewing habits for personal media...
This is not clear from the pricing page, which talks about CI pipeline minutes and other SaaS only stuff.
If 100 Gbps of capacity suddenly went away, then BGP attempted to route around it, and sent that traffic down 10 Gbps routers instead, which overloaded, or were not ready for the deluge of traffic, then those BGP routes could start flapping, at which point those routes would get pulled, forcing it onto yet other circuits, which may be 1 Gbps and that's how the outage continues to grow.

Too much capacity is centralized in certain providers, and if they go down there simply is no backup route that can handle the same traffic patterns.
I bought a pair of 12tb drives for $199 the other day and they often go cheaper. Now admittedly if you shuck externals you loose warranty but we are keeping them in the enclosures as these are for backups and thus the ease of taking them off site is great for us.
I have issues with where the line is actually drawn for market manipulation. It sure looks like the way it's applied is "if you inconvenience institutional investors, you're a market manipulator". As I've not seen much in the way of mitigating institutional investment firms capacity to do the same in the other direction vs retail.
Nat Slipstreaming v2.0 (Jan 26 update)
Tech that blew me away, and the year I first tried/saw them:

- Battle Zone (3D vector graphics arcade game), early 1980s

- The Mosaic browser and World Wide Web, 1993.

- CGI (Jurassic Park), 1993.

- Virtual Reality, SIGGRAPH 1994.

- CUSeeMe video conferencing, 1995.

- Linux, 1995.

- FutureSplash (forerunner of Flash), 1996.

- Palm Pilot, 1997.

- Plasma flatscreen TV, late 90s?

- Apple iPod, 2004.

- Amazon Echo, 2014.

- Virtual Reality again (GoT Oculus demo at SXSW), 2014.
So what is the tiniest Intel based device that can be connected to an eGPU through Thunderbolt casing with an Nvidia 307 so I can SteamVR?
I don't disagree entirely but...

We will see a lot from shat Shell does next. If they invest and expand the network, they can be the dominant player. That will show they're transitioning to the new era etc.

If they do nothing and let the network stagnate, that will delay Electric car introduction in the UK a lot.

Kodak famously developed the digital camera but couldn't bring themselves to cannibalise their own market. Will Shell now have the balls to do that or will they take the safer option and delay?
A derivative take on this is that getting people used to paying for internet services, would enable more respectful platforms that need the subscription revenue, to exist.

I also would never pay for participation in a monolithic user-generated content platform with questionable "curation" (e.g. Youtube Premium), but directly paying for hosting/moderation/admin work is still the way forward IMO.
The article in the print magazine is a quarter or third page sidebar, hardly meant to be substantial.
If people didn’t want ads it wouldn’t be a multi billion business. Also your analogy is wrong. Your browser won’t execute code unless it requests it. Fax machine spam you don’t have do anything except have it connected to a live telephone connection.

It’s more like complaining that your sole of your shoes is being worn out more because grocery stores put the milk in the back forcing you to walk past items you don’t intend to buy. You can always go to a different store just like you no one is forcing you to browse websites that are ad supported.
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